SpaceX launches 60 more Mini-Satellites for Global Internet

[FRANC THE GREAT]

SpaceX launched 60 Starlink satellites as part of mission to bring internet to the world

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SpaceX launched 60 more satellites Monday as part of CEO Elon Musk's "Starlink" mission to bring high-speed internet to large, remote swaths of the world.

Enabled by a constellation of low Earth orbit satellites, Starlink will provide fast, reliable internet to populations with little or no connectivity, including those in rural communities and places where existing services are too expensive or unreliable.

SpaceX said in a statement announcing the launch.

The launch began at 9:56 a.m. ET on Monday at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida and was livestreamed on SpaceX's website. The satellites launched from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

Approximately an hour after liftoff, SpaceX confirmed that all 60 Starlink satellites successfully deployed.

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Monday's satellite launch is the "heaviest payload to date, first re-flight of a fairing, and first Falcon 9 to fly a fourth mission," the company said in a tweet prior to the launch.

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The Starlink mission aims to provide internet in the northern U.S. and Canada in 2020 and expand to "near global coverage of the populated world by 2021," according to SpaceX's website.



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[mwanawao]

Hawa ndo watu wanafanya mapinduzi makubwa duniani,, ahongere sana Musk

 

[kizaizai]

Hakuna kitu cha bure toka kwa mzungu, mawazo yangu ni kwamba inawezekana serikali ya US ipo nyumayake na kuna vitu au mambo fulani wanayalenga kudumisha utawala wao Duniani.

 

[FRANC THE GREAT]

Hawa ndo watu wanafanya mapinduzi makubwa duniani,, ahongere sana Musk

Mapinduzi makubwa sana ya Kiteknolojia hususani katika Sayansi ya Anga za Mbali.